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Linux Outlaws 70 - The Year 2008 in Review (Everything's Nineteen)

Submitted by Fab on December 28, 2008 - 21:13.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 18 minutes 36 seconds, 38.4 MB

The Outlaws take a look back at the big (and small) stories of 2008 and generally reminisce.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:51 Introduction

Fab still loves Scott Sigler’s Earthcore — what a fantastic book!

0:06:36 The Year 2008 in Review

Episode 20: Sun buys MySQL, Dell really ramps up its Linux offerings
Episode 21: Nokia buys Trolltech
Episode 23: Sun buys VirtualBox
Episode 25: Microsoft gets fined record sum by the EU
Episode 32: OOXML becomes ISO standard, Adobe joins Linux Foundation
Episode 35: Hardy Heron release special
Episode 36: Hans Reiser found guilty of murder
Episode 37: Adobe opens Flash formats
Episode 38: Huge Debian SSH security vulnerability
Episode 39: Ballmer gets egged in Hungary
Episode 45: OpenMoko starts shipping the Freerunner, Nokia buys Symbian and promises to open source it
Episode 46: identi.ca launches, Xandros buys Linspire
Episode 47: Firefox breaks World Record for most downloads in 24 hours
Episode 48: LugRadio Live
Episode 53 : Stephen Fry GNU video, Google releases Chrome, Fedora servers get hacked
Episode 54: Lenovo dumps commercial Linux offerings
Episode 56: Android released
Episode 61: G1 released
Episode 65: Adobe releases 64bit Flash-Player alpha first on Linux
Episode 67: Linux booted on the iPhone
Episode 68: FSF sues Cisco

0:42:18 General Overarching Topics

We talked about many things this year, among them the whole OOXML debacle and SCO sueing themselves into a downward spiral, Microsoft wanting to buy Yahoo! and the whole M$-Novell love deal
We explained how we produce the show
We also talked about Linux in education
We reviewed many distros
Interviews: Bradley Kuhn, LugRadio Live Interviews, Evan Prodromou, Becky Hogge, Steve McIntyre, Jono Bacon, Dann Washko and Thomas Perl
We both bought an XPS m1330 at the beginning of the year
Was this The Year Of The Linux Netbook?
Did OpenMoko drop the ball, enabling Android to speed past?
KDE4 was released, mixed reactions all around
LugRadio, the Linux Action Show & Linux Reality are gone for good — luckily, Linux Basement and Dave Yates are still at it (and TLLTS of course)

This will be the last show of 2008. See you all back in the second week of 2009 for another fun-packed year of Linux Outlaws!

Song: Auld Lang Syne by jezra

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Linux Outlaws 69 - The Porn Tash

Submitted by Fab on December 21, 2008 - 20:09.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 12 minutes 21 seconds, 35.1 MB

This week: We talk about trouble in the Debian community, voting on Lenny’s release, Windows on submarines for real, PlayStation Home, MystOnline going open source and Fab reviews CunchBang on his Eee PC.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:07 Introduction

Thanks to Pipeline for sending us the intro clip of Bill & Ted
Apparently some Russian guy patented emoticons? — WTF!?
New podcast cover art coming up in 2009

0:06:18 Open Source Releases

Slax 6.0.9
K-DEMar 4.7
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.2
Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” — feature list including giver
Magic Linux 2.1
Parted Magic 3.3
Litrix Linux 9.0
Kiwi Linux 8.12
openSUSE 11.1
Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux
VirtualBox 2.1 — with OpenGL support

0:16:31 News Stories

Linux Foundation election results
More sexist morons trouble Debian community — we hope they get dealt with soon!
Debian developers vote on Lenny release
Plymouth boot splash planned for Ubuntu 9.10
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 now with Ubuntu option

0:27:21 Microwatch

Windows for Submarines (thanks to Michael Johnson for the tip) — do we really want a missing DLL to cause a thermo-nuclear war? Blue Screen of Death indeed!
M$ even manages iPhone app FAIL — is there nothing they can’t fuck up?

0:32:44 Review

Fab quickly reviews CrunchBang on the Eee PC 901

0:37:25 Gaming Corner PlayStation Home logo

MystOnline: UruLive to be open sourced — awesome news!
We give you our first impressions of PlayStation Home

0:43:00 Tip of the Week

Dan loves the Amazon UK mp3 store — works great with Linux!

0:50:00 Listener Feedback

Forum

Innuendo thread for this episode
Guitar thread

Email

Simon Vass From Uganda wrote to tell us his friend Jon Gosier has setup a podcast called Appfricast; he also told us about Yo Frankie! which is the game being made as part of the Apricot project from the Blender Institute
Ben2Talk wrote us a fucking long email explaining his love for Opera, he also says something we missed with Songbird is that he thinks it loads lyrics a lot faster than Amarok, Rhythmbox or anything else
Kristian Naugle (wrote to say he agreed with our comments on software patents in ep 60 and sends us a link - http://www.savefreedom.info/software/) (he also asks us what video editing software we use on Linux, he’s looking for something that does for audio what Audacity does for audio)
Tim says he likes aptRPM
Luke Vandervort tells us he enjoyed the interview with Thomas Perl and he loves gPodder
Jason Bowles asks about advice for starting a new open source project and finding help
Daniel Devine asks if Fab’s CrunchBang desktop looks like something from EVE Online on purpose and also mentions Fedora Directory
Thanks to NYbill and Mrs. NYbill for their Christmas wishes, also thanks to JZA, Bernd, The Glza, Spike, Reine and YaManicKill for the other emails this week
Fab will try to be at MBC 09 in Hamburg in January

Song: The Podsafe Christmas Song by Jonathan Coulton

Merry Christmas, everybody!!!

Linux Outlaws 68 - The Episode of the Beast

Submitted by Fab on December 15, 2008 - 20:35.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 28 minutes 31 seconds, 42.2 MB

This week: The FSF sues Cisco, teacher says Free Software doesn’t exist, Fab reviews CrunchBang Linux and the Linux Defenders defend Linux.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:00 Introduction

Thanks to Michael Johnson for the new sound clips of the Duke
Listening to Security Now’s coverage of Sandboxie, Fab had the idea that maybe you could implement a similar solution with git or bzr or something similar for free on Linux — what do you think?
Dan gives a shoutout to everyone from Barcamp Liverpool and wishes JonTheNiceGuy all the best for his upcoming wedding in the New Year
Thanks to TLLTS for getting Fab into Scott Sigler’s audio books — he’s been listening to Earthcore and is loving it so far
Philip Newborough (aka. corenominal) is not married (yet)
Beer of the Week: Oettinger Winterbier

0:09:23 Open Source Releases

SystemRescueCd 1.1.3
Puppy Linux 4.1.2
BSD Release: Frenzy 1.1
BSDanywhere 4.4
Clonezilla Live 1.2.1-23
Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R6
EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.22
TinyMe 2008.1
Slackware Linux 12.2
PC-BSD 7.0.2
ASPLinux 14
Amarok 2.0
gPodder 0.14.0 — includes amazing new my.gpodder.org
Wordpress 2.7
Google Chrome 1.0 — not a beta anymore, still no Linux version either…

0:19:54 News Stories

FSF & SFLC are sueing Cisco over GPL violations
Linux Foundation and SFLC create “Linux Defenders” to beat patent threats against Free Software
Teacher reprimands student for handing out Linux CDs, says “there’s no such thing as free software” — thanks to Kevan Vautier, Johan Burell, 6r00k14n & Daniel Devine for emailing this story to us
The two biggest Australian ISPs refuse to join Aussie net filtering test
IBM to bundle Lotus & Ubuntu to target Microsoft
Google makes developer version of the G1 available — thanks to Manfred Moser for the email

0:41:17 Microwatch

Another zero day exploit in M$ SQL Server — yet more security FAIL from the masters of security FAIL!
Microsoft releases open source CMS — Why??? Haven’t they heard of Wordpress?
Israeli Linux fan sues Windows refund out of Dell — thanks to Marfal for his email on this

0:48:27 Review

Fab reviews CrunchBang Linux — if you want to try this, head over to the CrunchBang forums, they have a really nice and helpful community over there!

1:04:45 Listener Feedback

Forum

Our forums now have 400+ members
Fab thanks all the people helping him decide on his Eee PC purchase

Email

Ger Appeldorn wrote to tell us about the Hacking At Random event 2009 in the Netherlands — apparently it’s like “a woodstock for hackers”
Jake Tolbert sent us some information about a collection of Christmas music he’s released under Creative Commons
Peter Nikolaidis wrote to tell us the Fresh Ubuntu podcast is alive again so go check it out!
Dan Fish says he is real and wrote us a rant about Microsoft and the NHS
Billy Crook asks that we send questions and answers to LinuxQuestions.org instead of our forums
Randy Fithian tells us about SELinux in Fedora and the YUM package manager
JonTheNiceGuy says we shouldn’t only attend LUG meetings but also as many other technology-related meetups as possible; he also thinks we owe the listeners a lot of inuendo jokes for Episode 69
Michael Sandahl told us about a Linux football management game called Bygfoot where apparently one of the commentators mentions Chopper Reid when someone commits a very bad foul
Alexandro Colorado (JZA) send us this amazing image:
Hall of Shame of other emails this week: Kevan Vautier, DaveS, Dan Collins, Antony Prince, Jonathan Groll and Scruffy Mogwai
Fab also mentions this very funny XKCD blog post (don’t miss the comments!)
Send us innuendo suggestions for show #69 via our special innuendo thread in the forums

Song: Riding with the Devil from the album Down in the City by Houdini Roadshow

Linux Outlaws 67 - Host Busses Don't Grow on Trees

Submitted by Fab on December 9, 2008 - 15:06.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 44 minutes 40 seconds, 50.4 MB

This week we discuss Linux on the iPhone, Cuban cigars, host busses, more German government fail and we talk to Thomas Perl of gPodder about his project, Python 3000 and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:02:44 Introduction

Fab was right about the Cuban cigars — thanks to Greg Lyles, Bob Konior and TK009 for verifying that
linea is a bloke
The lead developer of CrunchBang Linux is called Philip Newborough aka. corenominal
Becky Hogge is leaving the Open Rights Group, best of luck to her in the future
Thanks to everybody who is supporting us on Podcast Alley!
beetlespace found an Ubuntu version for visually impaired users: Vibuntu
New Springsteen & E Street Band album Working on a Dream out Jan 27

0:12:34 Open Source Releases

0:20:40 News Stories

gOS announces instant-on “Cloud” OS
German government set to legalise spyware use by Feds — you’d think terrorists might be smat enough to download an Ubuntu Live CD…
Linux successfully booted on the iPhone — thanks to John V
OpenSUSE kills their EULA
Oracle & Emulex contribute code to the kernel
MySQL creator mad at MySQL team
UN fails to set up listserv and pisses off journalists
NVIDA Compiz-fake ad:

0:43:13 Microwatch

Microsoft pays vendors to advertise Windows — surprise, surprise!
Apple bitch-slaps iPod interoperability project with DMCA — at least the EFF is on the case
Jonathan Coulton’s special EFF giveaway

0:48:44 Interview

We speak to Thomas Perl of gPodder about his project, what he thinks of Python 3000 and how he thinks Free and Open Source Software can best be improved.

If you want to help out with gPodder development, check out their wiki and report any bugs you find on their bug tracker. You can get also the latest packages of the software for many distributions here.

1:18:13 Tip of the Week

Check out openDesktop.org — get cool themes and artwork to pimp-up your window manager or desktop environment of choice

1:18:44 Listener Feedback

Forums

Email

Mark Adams wrote to tell us that Adam Williamson is leaving Mandriva — what a shame!
Mats Taraldsvik likes it when we have guests on and he still likes Opera Mini
Ralph wants to help FLOSS projects at helpfloss.org
Ben Stokes tells us about unetbootin, also check out his blog
Moggers recommended the RPM Fusion repo for 3rd party Fedora packages
Steve from Australia did also tell us about the iPhone on Linux story
Dennis from Australia asks what Fab has against Aussies and says we have to title an episode “Bucking Kangaroo” as a penance; he also tells us a bit about recent IT initiatives by their government
TK009 thinks that for every Fedora desktop in the wild there are probably two Ubuntu ones (he’s a Fedora user himself) and he also thinks that Fedora have rediscovered their focus with the last two releases
tloo wrote to tell us that the new Fedora Plymouth bootloader works with any VESA if you add a special vga argument to your GRUB
Also thanks to Thomas, Alfred Nutile, Bob Kovacs, John V., JZA, The Great Gazoo, Kevin Daire, Patrick Dailey, Morten Fucking-Long-Name and Peter Cannon for their emails this week

Song: Edge Of Design from the album Denied By Reign by Severed Fifth

Linux Outlaws 66 - Ramrod

Submitted by Fab on November 30, 2008 - 22:22.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 32 minutes 40 seconds, 45.8 MB

This week on the show: Fab reviews Fedora 10, the X-Men use Ubuntu, Microsoft will make your SQL data explode and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:00:58 Introduction

The John Wayne clip was send to us by Matt Hampton
Correction: Slackware 12 ships with Apache 2 (thanks to Dave from Indiana for the email)
Check out this IR power-on module for PCs — might be what Scott from Cape Town wanted for his Mythbox (thanks to Markus Golser)
The word “meh” was included into the Collins dictionary
Beer of the Week is a cigar

0:10:07 Open Source Releases

0:19:30 News Stories

You will soon to be able to buy the Neo Freerunner with Android pre-installed — so Android is open, even if the G1 hardware is not
SCO loses yet again!
The second Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is accepting submissions right now
Ubuntu Hall Of Fame — is promoting “rockstars” in the community a good idea?
Fedora Claims it’s the leader in Linux
The X-Men use Ubuntu!?

0:42:30 Microwatch

MS “Kojax” is Ajax for Java phones — includes free lollipop with every phone
Microsoft ad says your data will explode if you use SQL Server 2008:

0:45:12 Review

Fab reviews Fedora 10

1:01:15 Tip of the Week

Fab: Creative Commons licensed ESO space photos make excellent wallpapers
Dan: Avconvert Nautilus Script will convert audio/video/image formats from a right-click menu in Nautilus

1:05:15 Listener Feedback

Forums

Email

Kevin has been using Linux since the end of 2005 and says that Compiz Fusion is much more than useless eye-candy, especially if you are visually impaired
Jonathan says Microsoft cares nothing about blind people and accessibilty and thinks Gnome’s Orca beats anything on Windows — apparently it’s available from the moment you put the CD in the drive
Simon Garfunkel alsoI finds the Linux desktop far more user friendly than Windows and also finds Compiz Fusion a real boon
Mats Taraldsvik, as a norwegian, loves Opera Mini
Cam DeCoster just wrote to tell us to have a look at the new Neuros device
Jonathan Groll sent us a quick tip for people having trouble with any podcast files with those random Libsyn characters attached — to fix them all in one shot, make sure you have mmv installed and type:
```
  mmv "*mp3*" "#1mp3"
```
Josh Harwood sent a mail asking how he can find LUGs in the UK: lug.org.uk
Thomas Perl wrote to say he found another Ubuntu logo rip off
Rod Johnson sent us some information about Thomas Friedman after our mention last week
Also thanks to Tim LaFontaine, Frank Bell, Daz Fuller and Reine for their emails

Song: Nowhere Town by Noel Watson

Linux Outlaws 65 - Engage Crap Mode!

Submitted by Fab on November 25, 2008 - 14:51.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 24 minutes 45 seconds, 40.6 MB

The Outlaws talk about Debian, the G1, the Open Source Consortium throwing their toys out of the pram, Ubuntu on ARM and Microsoft’s “open source” website.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

John Wayne soundbite courtesy of Matt Hampton.

00:01:35 Introduction

Congratulations to Chad on a year of Linux Basement!
Check out the Software Freedom Law Show from the SFLC, which Dan produces
If you’re interested in helping Fab & Bradley with their podcasting app, visit the project’s page
The Gentoo Wiki recently lost its database
Tony Elmer tells us that Wikipedia needs your support, also sort out our Wikipedia entry, pleeeeease???
After doing a forum poll we will be mentioning selected stuff from the forums from next show onwards
Beer of the Week: Cheap shit from Aldi

0:15:50 Open Source Releases

0:22:13 News Stories

Open Source Consortium complains to the BBC about their PDC Windows 7 coverage — they say it was one big ad
Firefox 2 to be phased out
SplashTop now used on netbooks
Debian Jr. — Debian for children
Ubuntu on the ARM platform
Debian gets ported to G1
Banshee 1.4 supports G1 sync

0:40:37 Microwatch

Redmond is apparently rethinking their “open source” CodePlex site
Microsoft to “help” startups out — emailed to us by Stuart Burns as well as Alex Harrington

0:48:25 Listener Feedback

Luke Vandervort wrote to say he enjoyed Dan’s George Bush accent but was a little worried we’d been replaces by CIA operatives
We had plenty of emails both agreeing and disagreeing with Dann Washko on Mono — thanks to Jason Bowles, Phillip Heron, Randy Fithian and Kaity G. B.
Pipeline wrote to tell us about this quote they read in a textbook: “Thats right: 200 miles per gallon. It’s the Linux of cars!” (Thomas L. Friedman)
Scott from Cape Town says our M$ bashing has led him to install Ubuntu on his laptop and he moved from XP, he also asks how to start up a Mythbox by using a remote
Tom Elke send us some friendly Republican hate mail
Richard Querin also complained via a very funny clip he send in
Jared is a blind Linux user who send us comments on the areas where Linux is still very much lacking in accessibility — further listening on this topic: Linux Reality episode 72, where Chess interviews a blind sysadmin
Todd sent us a list of annoying things people say from the BBC and notes that Fab is basically number one
Ben from Bangkok tells us about GnoMenu which aims to duplicate the Vista menu, he also asks if we’re interested in media centres and have we tried XBMC or Elisa
Martin has problems with his printers under Linux, says he has an HP but it doesn’t work properly — Fab uses an HP OfficeJet 6310
Lucy tells us about software patents in the EU and send us a link to the Open Rights Group’s explanation of it, also check out stopsoftwarepatents.eu
Also thanks to Paul Steel, Dave Pattenden, Henry Tarling, Tim Wilson, Jonathon Groll, Cristian Farrow, Mathew Stahl, Ricard Carpenter, Jaco Vantonder, Dave S., Brian from Michigan and Alan Haugen for their emails

The Dell Mini 12 “pile of shitbook” (at least for the moment it is)

Song: Sad Robot from the album 8-bit lagerfeuer by Pornophonique (emailed by Bobby Hunter & Benedikt Goos)

Linux Outlaws 64 - Lick My Lenny

Submitted by Fab on November 15, 2008 - 23:47.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 25 minutes 39 seconds, 42.0 MB

This week, the Outlaws talk about Germany moving their embassies to Linux, possible slogans for Debian Lenny, Microsoft retiring Windows 3.x and much more. Includes Fab’s review of LittleBigPlanet for the PS3.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:00:52 Introduction

I think we confused prior art in patents with defending trademarks in Episode 62
Dan got lots of crap via email and in the forums because of the Mandriva Gnome/KDE thing
Michael Griffin ist not a xenophobic thug and Canada is a nice country
Wind River Systems are an embedded software company, they were best known for selling a proprietary embedded OS called “VxWorks” and have turned around completely and become a supporter and supplier of Linux as an embedded OS
Neil Young started an electric car conversion company

0:08:36 Open Source Releases

0:17:30 News Stories

Google doesn’t give you root access on Android which means you have to jailbreak the thing
Germany moves its embassies over to Linux
Debian Lenny slogan poll
GNU changes the FDL in order to let Wikipedia move to Creative Commons
GNUveau Networks builds solar-powered Linux computer networks for developing countries
Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines

0:35:09 Microwatch

Redmond finally retires Windows 3.x
How Microsoft sees Open Source software
Microsoft pays South Korea $60 million to use its software — must be awesome software!

0:40:58 Gaming Corner

Fab gives his review of LittleBigPlanet for the PS3

0:48:58 Tip of the Week

Terminator, a GTK terminal emulator that supports multiple terminals in one window

0:50:24 Listener Feedback

Nido Media tells us about some terrible software patents he also is in favour of Mono and thinks Microsoft would not want to go after Linux users for running it
Michael Spannbauer send us a link to the Klinikum Ingolstadt whose logo really reminds us of the logo of our favourite poo coloured distro
Mark (Aardwurk) sends us a note about Cross-Site Request Forgery and Clickjacking — Fab recommends to listen to Security Now episodes 166 & 168 if you are interested in this — we also discuss Steve Gibson and his disposition towards Open Source
Frank Bell mentioned us is a blog post and thinks we should run Slackware
Cam DeCoster tells us about his Tivo hacking (he used MFSLive)
CafeNinja set up a Jamendo playlist for all the songs played on LO
Aiden (dismal_denizen) created an Uncyclopedia article for our show — hilarious!
Jer Barton tells Dan he’s an idiot because of his problems with the Mandriva page
David Collins-Rivera (lostnbronx) compliments Fab on his music choice on Episode 62 and thinks he’s related to a guy he knows by the name of Kinzer
Martin likes the show and asks Dan if he saw him at a Liverpool game on TV; he also thanks us for the Mandriva review
Andy Hunter says Windows 7 looks like what Sony would come up with if they designed a “My First KDE” distro
deadrabbit thinks the PS3 might run BSD; he/she also harshes on the Ubuntu community a bit
Reine says Dan can now nearly pronounce her name
Ian Corke suggests we should start worrying about our demographic, he also loves the EeePC 900 with Linux on which he uses Mandriva and hates Windows Mobile
Kristoffer Egil Bonarjee tells us about Linux on Android and its limitations
Thomas is a Mythbuntu developer and enlightens us about their packages being in the regular Ubuntu repos, he also hopes Fab will have a good time when he tries Mythbuntu again
David Ramsey Cain uses CD-RWs for his distro hopping so as not to waste a lot of regular CD-Rs — a very good idea
jezra tells us about an experience he had while wearing his Linux Outlaws shirt — good on ya, man!
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (Dingus McSlack) send us a fucking massive email recommending D2OL, another distributed computing thingy that does “really complicated stuff with molecules”

Song: 5 Foot 2 from the album Oh Yes! by the The Rinky Dinks

Linux Outlaws 63 - Love at First Skype

Submitted by Fab on November 9, 2008 - 21:55.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 26 minutes 27 seconds, 40.1 MB

In this episode, we interview Dann Washko from TLLTS about Mono, Linux in general and how TLLTS got started.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:40 Introduction

If you want to come on the show and tell us why Mono is awesome, contact us!

0:04:41 Interview Dann Washko

We interview Dann Washko from The Linux Link Tech Show about his thoughts on Mono, how he got into computers, how TLLTS got started and his love for Slackware.

We all have way too much fun and ramble on quite a bit, so the interview makes up the whole show this time.

Song: Fuck The MPAA from the album Hotel Coral Essex by the Futuristic Sex Robotz

Linux Outlaws 62 - Ballmer Island

Submitted by Fab on November 3, 2008 - 22:31.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 34 minutes 56 seconds, 46.2 MB

This time, despite having not actually that much to talk about, we nonetheless manage to rathole together a show of epic proportions again.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:33 Introduction

Beer of the Week: Altenmünster Brauer Bier

0:04:18 Open Source Releases

We also rathole about FOG a bit.

gPodder 0.13.1

0:10:17 News Stories

EU Patent Board to decide whether to allow EVIL software patents
Ubuntu has more than 8 Million users?
BMW to put Linux in cars? — Bayrische Mistwagen mit Linux?
OpenSUSE elects their first ever board
Ubuntu Open Week for Intrepid
Shuttleworth on Ubuntu: It ain’t about the money
Is OpenMoko working on an Android handset?

0:35:53 Microwatch

0:47:55 Distro Review

Dan gives us his in-depth review of Mandriva 2009 (both the KDE 4.1 and Gnome editions) — check his blog for even more details.

1:05:30 Tip of the Week

Nearly all peripherals that work with the Linux kernel also work with the Playstation 3, try it! — does this mean they use Linux under the hood?

1:08:10 Listener Feedback

Michael Griffin sent us a lot of information about Python, he also mentions that Canadian immigrations were right to detain Dan if he was missing paperwork (they could’ve been nicer, though) — Fab also repeatedly plugs Stargate Atlantis thoughout this section, including the great Dr. McKay who is Canadian
Dan said he wasn’t sure which podcast had said it but someone said Dropbox was open source, which it isn’t — we are pretty sure we said that
jezra wants to hear Dan speak like Lister’s Confidence
Gregor Bočič from Linux Void shares his ideas for promoting Linux
Tony Elmer wanted to say thanks to Fab for the Intrepid review in Episode 60 and says he was always a KDE man but tried Intrepid after listening and thinks he’ll stay, he also loved the dust theme
erythrocyte wants us to consider doing a show on power management solutions in the future, and also wonders if we could have a brainstorm site for people to submit and vote on features for the show
Ian Cornwall sent us the news that the US Intelligence community use MediaWiki to share information between agencies — madness!
Jason says apprently the US Army believes Twitter may be a security threat now — WTF!?
Ryan Gilley wrote a follow up to his previous email saying we’d got his email wrong and he was only messing about us not liking Americans and says his humour is better in person
Bernd (presumably not Bernd Das Brot) wrote to say he enjoys the show and also to complain about Dell in Austria
Reine wrote and told us a fennec is a small desert fox
Rod Johnson from Texas shares some Texas hospitality with our server and also asks for a review of the distributed computing projects on Linux — our favourite is Folding@Home

Song: Down in the City from the album Down in the City by Houdini Roadshow

Linux Outlaws 61 - Bono Jacon, You've Got Mail!

Submitted by Fab on October 29, 2008 - 17:35.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 37 minutes 2 seconds, 47.9 MB

This week, we have some Linux news as usual and we also interview Jono Bacon about his recent Severed Fifth album release, Ubuntu and also Free Software and Free Culture in general.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:11 Introduction

If you’re on Last.fm, join the Linux Outlaws group!
Check out crapalert.org for those special occasions when you need the Crap Alert™ at your disposal
PS3 games: Burnout Paradise, Little Big Planet

0:06:47 Releases

0:11:20 News

Android now open source for real
Mozilla new mobile browser: Fennec
T-Mobile G1 released
Drobo Apps for the DroboShare adds user-developed Linux dashboard
Dell employee becomes Ubuntu core developer
Linux is worth ten biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilion dollars according to the Linux Foundation

0:21:16 Microwatch

Holy fuck, Microsoft patents new audio censoring software

0:26:44 Interview

We interview Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon about Free Culture, Free Software, Ubuntu, his new project Severed Fifth and music in general. We also asks what Jono’s favourite guitar is, of course. Severed Fifth has just released their first album Denied By Reign licensed under a Creative Commons license, so go ahead and download the music!

You can also download the whole album as mp3 and Ogg directly from our server.

1:13:45 Tip of the Week

Appnr software installation website using apturl

1:17:55 Listener Feedback

John V. tells us why he’s listening to the show
Raindog sent us some info on Laconica plugins
Rob Bunting tells us about carbon dating, he also listens to the show at 130% speed
Kevin really liked the Keep Cool Vibration song we played some time ago and wants to hear more like that
Timo thinks Dann’s singing sucks
On the topic of Ubuntu advertising, Andreas Kristoffersen sends us pictures of the Ubuntu lettuce and a cool Ubuntu billboard
Mark from Morecambe, Lancashire wrote to tell us he was pleased to hear us mention the fact that Macs are PCs as it annoys him too and no other podcast seems to mention it
Mat wrote to say that the Australian ‘net filtering will only be for illegal content, so porn with consenting adults will still be allowed
Mathew Stahl asks us about an email with a virus warning he received and if that also applies to Linux

For people who had partition problems on Dell’s Ubuntu-powered Mini 9, we mention that Dell fixed that problem via the auto-updater.

Song: Dollar Plague from the album Denied By Reign by Severed Fifth

Linux Outlaws 60 - ...Poking a Hole Into Your Firewall

Submitted by Fab on October 25, 2008 - 22:09.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 45 minutes 51 seconds, 51.5 MB

On this episode: Intrepid Ibex beta review, a bag of tips and a mountain of email.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:02:07 Introduction

Jono and his Jägerbombs
Severed Fifth released Denied By Reign on October 21

0:09:18 Review

Ubuntu Intrepid beta first impressions:

Pros

Hasn’t fried Fab’s Ethernet card (yet)
Nice default artwork — Human New theme not default yet, though
Nice “iTunes-like” disk space overview in installer
Wifi/Bluetooth buttons now work on XPS m1330
Much needed improvements and bug fixes to gvfs
Much faster boot, frightingly quick shutdown
Much better media unmounting
Pretty stable for a beta
Amazing number of packages worked on and updated every day
System feels very snappy overall
New GIMP 2.6 is now in Intrepid!

Cons

When the hell will we have compizconfig by default?
Auto-login checkbox in installer could be sonsidered unsecure
Still pretty much unusable map in installer
Tabs in Nautilus — but you gotta now that the feature is there (or be more intelligent than Fab)
Flash is still a mess (not Ubuntu’s fault)
Pulseaudio still flakey, control packages not installed by default

Verdict: Very stable and usable for a beta, a lot of incremental improvements — it’s not crap!

0:31:58 Tips

The (unofficial) Dust theme for Ubuntu
Get WoW to play nice with pulseaudio: Switch to OSS and run the launcher with the padsp prefix
SATA-to-USB hard drive cradles

0:42:16 Listener Feedback

Frank Bell loves Slackware — fair enough
GourdCaptain from Ohio tells us his Linux story and asks about getting access to a password protected printer on a Windows Vista machine in Xfce
Ramsey Cain sent us a screenshot of his results from a Google search for “linux gaming”, top (sponsored) result is microsoft.com/windows — sigh
Germ aka. Jeremy The Geek educates Fab on PlayOnLinux
Darrin suggests we need a FAIL! sound effect like the Crap Alert and reccomends the sad trombone
Leon Vayman gives us some Ekiga tips, Neil Darlow did as well
Charlie Robinson asks if we stole the Crap Alert sound from Speed Racer
Dave S. has been playing with live distros and loves Puppy Linux — he also bought a new toaster
Jason Swenson from the Central Plains in the US thinks Dan and Fab are the Two-Face of Linux
antiussentiment is really angry about our show
Oliver Ryde asks about the Acer Aspire One and Linux support of its 3G modem
Dan Fish tells us about urea and asks why the NHS isn’t using open source solutions
Ryan Gilley tells us a little bit about Texas and the Old West and says our server is GTT now
Chris W. gives us a Linux automounting rant
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (mjjzf) gives a few arguments for using Fluxbox and Xfce
Matteo Mario Doni writes to us about Carlsberg Elephant and his Linux distro plans
Peter Cannon hates Fab’s music choices
Kristian Holm from Norway doesn’t get why so many people think Windows is free — we sympathise
Nick loves BackupPC
Ben Hellyer has the impression we are bitter about Google’s Android
Anders Trobäck tells us that the latest Gnome is actually in Intrepid
Eric Amundsen can’t believe we’ve been around a year and he hasn’t missed a show, he’s even listening to some more than once and sent us a donation — what a guy!
John Hickey is a Windows developer, developer, developer and tells us his views about Mono and C#
Steve Reddit is on the other side of the “Mono Wars”
Sleepynate also commented on our Mono discussion
Craig Barnes tells us about DotGNU
Hanns Otto Lunde sent us a long email with lots of information about Carlsberg including a picture of the entrance to the original brewery which features carved elephants holding up the pilars and explains the name
Tom Norback tells us where the “cloud computing” term comes from
Gordon wrote to tell us Apple have patented the application dock in OS X and fears that might spell the end to AWN
Bookeroo sends us some audio feedback about Gmail and general email spying

Song: Bring It All Back Home from Dan’s music blog Sonic Real Estate

Linux Outlaws 59 - Big, Honkin' IDE...

Submitted by Fab on October 20, 2008 - 11:04.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 18 minutes 11 seconds, 37.3 MB

The Outlaws are back with a jam-packed show full of releases, news and a lot of waffling. Also stay tuned for the second half of the content to be released as another show later this week…

0:01:11 Rambling Introduction

We are back with two shows for the price of one!
Big thanks to everyone who donated, if you want to be mentioned on the show, send us an email
Visit Ontario Linux Fest on Saturday, October 25 if you can!
Also, the Linux Expo in London is on this week
Dan tells us why Canada doesn’t like him
Thanks to Thomas Perl and the gPodder team for promoting us, also thanks to Peter Cannon for the tip off
Fab talks briefly about the “Sockstress” vulnerability and recommends Security Now Episode 164 which deals with this topic
We also sympathise with our Australian listeners, it sucks having a stupid government
Beer of the Week: Tyskie

0:19:23 Releases

0:30:00 News

Linux distros relations chief Barton George leaves Sun
Debian postpones Lenny, but not till June 2009 says Steve McIntyre
MySQL co-founder David Axmark also leaves Sun
Wikipedia moves to Ubuntu servers
Guy names his kid “Linux”
Netbook returns blamed on Linux
Mozilla launches audio/video initiative, Firefox to include native Ogg support
Dell is advertising Ubuntu in newspapers & Inspiron Mini 12 rumours
Andoid kill switch outed

0:54:09 Microwatch

M$ cloud OS to be called “Windows Strata”, next Windows to be called “Windows 7” — surprise!
Ballmer admits that Vista is crap, XP will be offered for six more months
Microsoft CodePlex not so open after all — who’d have thought!?
Redmond is courting open source developers, developers, developers for Silverlight 2.0
Worst ad EVER:
Le Fail: Apple doesn’t speak French that well

Please leave any comments on this episode in the forums.

Song: Dann Washko from The Linux Link Tech Show performs an ad-hoc comedy gem (thanks to Matt Hampton for sending this in)

If you are so inclined, you can also check out Dann’s arse here:

Linux Outlaws 58 - Light Horse Harry

Submitted by Fab on October 5, 2008 - 19:59.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 22 minutes 11 seconds, 40.0 MB

This week on the show: the Outlaws have a new server, if Linux distros were footballers, RMS condemns cloud computing — Dan & Fab discuss, Ballmer hints at Windows Cloud OS, Novell/Mono and Microsoft and a review of Dropbox.

Visit Ohio Linux Fest.

00:02:09 Introduction

Fab has moved all our sites over to a new VPS — we are running Ubuntu Server now
We had some trouble with our mail on the new server for a few days, so submissions from the feedback form might’ve not come through — if in doubt, please send us your feedback again
It seems like Abdroid is open source — thanks to Dan’s LUG buddies for pointing that out!
If Linux distributions were footballers…

00:11:08 Releases

00:17:53 News

China spies on your Skype and miserably fails in hiding it
Researchers hint at deathly cross-platform TCP/IP-flaws
iPhone developer NDA dropped
Android adoption in the industry seems rather slow
Ubuntu alpha versions are bricking network cards — Dan says: “Somebody’s gonna hav’ta pay!!!”
RMS condemns cloud computing — we talk about cloud computing, the AGPL and the future of web applications in general

00:35:00 Microwatch

00:44:52 Review

We review Dropbox, a cross-platform cloud-backup/sharing service that now has a Linux client with excellent Nautilus integration (it’s free as in beer and the Nautilus plugin is GPL, the daemon process is closed-source)

00:52:35 Discussion

We discuss the whole Novell-Microsoft-Interop complex, especially Miguel de Icaza’s role in it with developing and evangalising Mono — if you have any comments, feel free to direct them to us through the usual channels

01:01:25 Listener Feedback

Kris Douglas sends us a link to some graphs with a swear word count of the Linux kernel
Nathan Dotz also told us how to grep for swear words in the kernel sources, ie.:
grep -r ‘fuck’ /usr/src/linux*
Ger Appeldorn recommends BackupPC
Barry Williams tells us about Telstra’s invention of “NextG” in Australia
Colin Mills is 64, has pretty high geek cred at that, and might be our oldest listener
Charlie Robinson loses that competition to Colin with 55 years of age

Please leave any comments on this episode in the forums.

Song: The Duke Of Dust from the album Hobotwang by Hobo Twang

Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee III

Linux Outlaws 57 - Free as in Beer

Submitted by Fab on September 29, 2008 - 21:53.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 32 minutes 19 seconds, 44.5 MB

Dan and Fab talk about what happened in Open Source in the last week, poke the usual fun at Redmond and interview Steve McIntyre, the Debian Project Leader.

Visit Ohio Linux Fest.

00:01:02 Introduction

Beer of the Week: Carlsberg Elephant

00:03:19 Releases

00:13:35 News

25 years of GNU
Fedora turns five
Nokia’s plans for Maemo 5 — looks like our mystery source from last week wasn’t far off
T-Mobile and Google release first Android phone

00:22:10 Microwatch

00:32:32 Interview Steve McIntyre

We interview Steve McIntyre, the Debian Project Leader, about Debian (obviously) and his job there and at Amino, how he got involved with the project, the recent GPL violation accusations, his stance towards derivative distributions like Ubuntu, the death threats towards Debian women and what his goals are for Lenny and the general the future.

We also ask him some questions from the listeners, including how he thinks Debian’s governance model is doing, why there are binary blobs in the kernel, if they plan to get into the booming netbook market and what happens when Debian runs out of Toy Story characters for release names. Fab also finds out what’s up with the Debian developers and kilts, although he doesn’t manage to discover what they wear under them…

00:58:31 Listener Feedback

Christian Farrow sent us an interesting article about adoption of the Linux desktop and how Linux should stop copying Microsoft and instead look to how Apple does things, he also sent us a link to CodeWeaver’s port of Chrome to Linux
Bob Konior points out that he is 57 and wants us to put a Frappr map on the site
Torben Stones sends us some more feedback on browser exploits
DaveS will be 60 next April and tells us about WinFF
Mark Faulkner tells us that he made a point about buying an EeePC because the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 wasn’t available with Linux
Hendo enjoyed watching Firefly on Fab’s recommendation, tells us about an Ogg-playing TL-T29 audio player he bought on eBay and sends us one more song by Noel Watson

Andrew Williams gives us some security tips regarding the usage of Webmin on your server and tells us what all the Gs mean — he also plugs Terminator
xuedi from Beijing LUG says we should mention PlayOnLinux
Mike Smith dropped us a line to say he enjoys the show and he’s listening to all of the early ones in order while he commutes
Peter Cannon sends us another awesome email full of sillyness
Bookaroo sends us some feedback on Microsoft’s and Apple’s ad campaigns

Please leave any comments on this episode in the forums.

Song: Let My Children from the album Conquest Of The Empire by Keep Cool Vibration

Linux Outlaws 56 - Have You Had Your Eyes Tested Lately?

Submitted by Fab on September 22, 2008 - 23:47.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 20 minutes 19 seconds, 39.0 MB

This time, the Outlaws talk about Canonical paying developers to pimp the Linux desktop, Microsoft killing the Seinfeld ads, a virus on the ISS, DRM in clothing and a lot more.

Visit Ohio Linux Fest.

00:01:34 Introduction

The world hasn’t ended
Fab is back online for good!
LugRadio’s LRL 2008 show is out
Apparently Steven Fry’s MacBook does run gNewSense
Dan is now supporting the Open Rights Group
Beer of the Week: Iki Beer

00:07:33 Releases

00:13:47 News

00:34:20 Microwatch

00:47:51 Tip of the Week

Marvel’s The Dark Tower: Treachery comic books

00:50:00 Listener Feedback

Benny sends us a link to a very weird story about a guy buying a G4 PowerMac on eBay
Steven sends us a story about Sun open sourcing their xVM server
Ger Appledorn warns us about security issues with Webmin
Darrin tells us that the OpenID login on linuxoutlaws.net seems to be broken
David Stevens helped us narrowing down our mp3 tagging problem
We get an anonymous tip about Nokia’s open source plans
Stuart Burns gives us an admittedly rather nice booting about Thinkpads

Please leave any comments on this episode in the forums.

Song: Nothing On from the album Worm Food by Ruth Theodore

Linux Outlaws 55 - Your Shipment of Feedback Has Arrived

Submitted by Fab on September 19, 2008 - 19:08.

54:55 minutes, 26.9 MB — Download or play

We are back with another feedback-only show. There will be another regular episode shortly, but we desperately needed to clear out the inbox a bit, so sit back and enjoy nearly an hour’s worth of emails and messages from listeners like yourself.

Reine Dedeurwaerder sends us loads of stuff, including some pictures of her and her dog, a link to an article about the global popularity of Linux (which we briefly discuss), a link to pictures of some really crazy cabling, a link to a video about Freebase Parallax and an audio file about the proliferation of programming languages and the problems of software development today
Henrik Claesson proposes a fix for the slow scrolling Firefox problem Fab had some time ago — he proposes to switch from XAA to EXA for the rendering in your xorg.conf file and adding “Option “AccelMethod” “EXA”” in the Device section of that file
Martin Reindl donated money to the show (we say thank you) and asks what we thought of the “Heimweh Paderborn” booth ads he donated; he also wants to know what ISP Fab works for
Tony (Hendo) Henderson send us the Noel Watson song we used in the last show and tells us that he resurfaced on the web after some time in hospital; he also wants to point out that you have to be at least 55 to even consider beating him to “oldest listener of the show”
Ukytreats tells us about a cool Ubuntu experience he had in Lone Pine, California (near Death Valley)
Iwan van der Kleijn proposes to get the guys from MoinMoin and DokuWiki together on one show

Special Tip from Fab: Check out You Look Nice Today, a very funny comedy podcast by Merlin Mann and friends

James Stephenson says Second Life is only partly open source — the second life client (Viewer) is Open Source, but the server software (The Grid) is not (but there is reverse engineered server called OpenSim)
Eric “Black” Mesa tells us he loved the interview with Evan
Robert Potter tells us how hard it is to get Dells with Ubuntu in some cases — we don’t understand that either and give Dell some flak for that (you can, however, download the Dell Ubuntu image on their wiki)
Kevan sent us a story about more weaknesses in Internet protocols and how an attacker can intercept data sent through BGP
Jeff Smith says the last few shows were too quiet
Mark Faulkner sends us a link to a story about a cross-platform browser exploit and asks us what we think about it — he also mentions OWASP
Stephen Parsons likes the show but corrects Fab’s pronunciation of “Raleigh”
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